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Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political
MarriageBy Jeffrey
Frank(Simon & Schuster, 434 pages,
$30)
Damn,” was the initial reaction. Although 40 years have passed,
here comes another one: another book by another of those East Coast
liberal scribblers—Pat Buchanan calls them “the offspring of the
old jackal pack”—out to kick Richard Nixon around one more time,
and in the process embellish the Nixon caricature that has replaced
the man in so much of today’s popular historicizing.
But as it turns out, that’s not it at all. True, Jeffrey Frank
has all of what normally would pass for
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